Tag your it.

Business sure is booming for those gearing up.

Edit:

Dang, looks like I was hatted by Em. Seems my timing signal was off by a few min.



Auto-edited on 2020-08-02 to update URLs

Last edited by Johnny_Rotten (2013-10-30 11:50:02)

Cross posting this one:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/future-is-n … .html?vp=1

Emmeran wrote:

I suppose inevitable does not equal good...

Where have you been, SSgt?

Emmeran wrote:

I've been putting up wood for the winter, but I broke my favorite ax and it's put me in a bit of a funk.  I don't like the fiber-glass handled axes and while they'll make do I really need to get a new hickory handle.

I hate it when I break my toys...

Other than splitting fatwood I haven't touched an ax, maul or wedge in 30 years.  We burn 3 to 4 cords a season, and rely on a 16" Stihl and a 12 ton hydraulic splitter. 

If you're actually using an ax to cut or even split your firewood you're being overly Amish.

Or I have a house full of teenaged knuckleheads who need to burn off some steam.

Let me honestly add that it's very therapeutic for me to swing that ax at times also...

Exactly, you are allowed to be angry when you do this; the rest of the time you have to be a good boy.

XregnaR wrote:

This.  Not the most efficient method, but it sure as hell burns off the worries of the day, and having a maniacal glint in your eye while you do it will help keep the neighbors, wife & kids in line.

Until they hide the axe on you, sure. Took me years to find that dutifully honed blade, none the too much worse for wear and all because I one whack axed the teen terror hotline running upstairs. Truly, one of life's sweeter moments.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2 … ce-forces/

Careful how you stand when they pull you over for that California stop.

Well he dented our patrol car....

Swimming upstream against the tide or just making sense?

"I spent eight years on the SWAT team. I've served hundreds of no-knock warrants. I know firsthand how it all operates," he says. "I also know firsthand that there are better alternatives. Too often we start with the highest level of force. We should always start at the lowest level. If the police show up and the situation deteriorates, then that's our fault. We haven't done our job right. I think we get too caught up in the whole officer safety thing. The danger you expose everyone to in these raids is significant."

From the comments a tale of a different take on the surveillance state and how it plays in Peoria

My city uses a thing called the "Armadillo" which is a converted Brinks-type truck that can provide 24-hour surveillance, but the surveillance isn't what reduces the crime ... it's having the Armadillo parked right outside your nuisance property. It has an element of public shaming, and it lets you know the cops are on to you. At first people were concerned that the Armadillo was going to be used to harass law-abiding citizens and be all surveillance-state-y, but now that it's been in use for 4 years, people LOVE the Armadillo. They had to get a second one because the waiting list is so long to have it park on particular streets -- neighborhood associations and individuals request them at local nuisance properties, and the police evaluate the requests and place the Armadillos accordingly. The two are named "Starsky" and "Hutch." People turn out at community festivals where there's an Armadillo so they can see them and take pictures with them...

Another thing they're doing locally is buying a few abandoned houses in run-down, dangerous neighborhoods with bad police relationships and having patrol officers actually move in to the neighborhoods to live in the neighborhoods they police and try to develop relationships with the community. They've just started the program but I think it's a great idea, and I'm hopeful it'll work well.

Fixed second link - square

Last edited by square (2013-11-10 14:39:02)

Cuz it's dangerous on the Ohio State campus

L.A. Cops, not San Antonio.  Just Sayin'/  Stock Photo.

Emmeran wrote:

Dmtdust wrote:

L.A. Cops, not San Antonio.  Just Sayin'/  Stock Photo.

OK, my bad.  I'll look in the attic for the appropriate hat to wear.

Look in the Ruff Tuff Creampuff's dream sequence.

Last edited by Tall Paul (2013-12-22 19:22:51)

Trooper jacks off with preteen boy, prosecutor refuses to file charges.

nfidelbastard wrote:

Trooper jacks off with preteen boy, prosecutor refuses to file charges.

Sandusky County?  How appropriate.

Didn't you hear me boy? I said put your hands up!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahoma-ma … mily-says/

Ranger posted part of this months ago...

Techdirt: NH pushes back against police militarization

choad wrote:

Ranger posted part of this months ago...

Techdirt: NH pushes back against police militarization

Ah the Shire, land of those pesky Keene Robin Hooders who put coins in parking meters as civil disobedience protests. Tenaciously reducing city parking ticket revenue by about 25%. And were sued twice by the city to stop from being so damn annoying.

The Robin Hood kids helped start the Thanks but no Tanks campaign.

In an application to acquire a Lenco BEARCAT (Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck), Concord PD stated:

“The State of New Hampshire’s experience with terrorism slants primarily towards the domestic type. We are fortunate that our State has not been victimized from a mass casualty event from an international terrorism strike however on the domestic front, the threat is real and here. Groups such as the Sovereign Citizens, Free Staters and Occupy New Hampshire are active and present daily challenges.”

Auto-edited on 2020-08-02 to update URLs

Having served in excess of 30 years in law enforcement I find the militarization of domestic police and the ever expanding size and direction of Homeland Security overwhelming.  Police are a civil force that specifically deals with criminal matters.  It was never intended that police would be all geared up like the military.  Back when the Marathon bombing took place one of the most disgusting sights was to see 10 cops with M-4’s hanging of the sides of MRAP’s and like vehicles.  Ask anyone in the Watertown neighborhood where the little curly haired piece of shit was apprehended and you will be told horror stories of the total suspension of the Constitution took place.  The American police officer should not be militarized.  It is most likely that MA will never be onboard with this thinking because of the domination of liberal and democrat thinking.

choad wrote:

Call it what you will but if you're elsewhere this fine day, eat your heart out. The south coast finally got a thaw, not a cloud in the sky, all the doors and windows open.

I doubt you're looking at 70 degrees and sunny for the next week as I am.  Of course, we'll be begging for water this coming summer, but for now it's pretty nice.

nfidelbastard wrote:

I don't know if there is a Police Meme Generator out there somewhere or if behavior spreads from department to department naturally. Not too long
ago it seemed that suddenly, all cops had the right to shoot all dogs they came across. Now, having seen many videos of police brutality, I wondered
if police shouted things like "Stop resisting" and "he's going for my gun" only when those things happened, or as SOP during an arrest as a precaution
in case grainy video or witnesses catch the cops misbehaving, giving them an excuse to be heavy handed. The video below answers that.

Fuckers.  Same type of assholes that put their hands on their pistols when I admitted to having been a career Marine, all because I was being "too polite".

Who amongst you now qualifies as a pre-criminal? The correct answer of course is if you know of one, you are one.

A bit long winded but something this outrageous deserves both barrels.

Consider that the root of this methodology is social network analysis. Your place on the heat-list is explicitly not about what you've done or who you are: it's about who your friends are and what they've done. The idea that people's social circles tell us something about their own character is as old as the proverb "A man is known by the company he keeps." Certainly, it wasn't a new idea to the framers of the Constitution (after all, the typical framer was both a member of a secret society and had recently participated in a guerrilla revolution -- they knew a thing or two about the predictive value of social network analysis).

But the framers explicitly guaranteed "freedom of association," in the First Amendment. Why? Because while "birds of a feather stick together," the criminalization of friendship is a corrosive force that drives apart the bonds that make us into a society. In other words: if the Chicago PD think that crime can only be fought by discriminating against people based on their friendships, they need to get a constitutional amendment before they put that plan into action.

Finally, this program assumes that its interventions will be positive, and this assumption is anything but assured. The idea that being told that you are likely to commit crimes will prevent you from doing so is no more obvious that the idea that being treated as a presumptive criminal will lead you to commit crimes. What's more, well-known, well-documented cognitive biases (theory blindness, confirmation bias) are alive and well in the criminal justice system: if someone on the blacklist is suspected of doing something minor, we should expect the police, prosecutors and judge to treat them more harshly than they would someone plucked from off the street. If you're already in a machine-generated ethnicity of pre-criminals, society will deal with you accordingly.

What's more, this will lead to more arrests, harsher charges and longer sentences for pre-criminals -- seemingly validating the methodology. It's the Big Data version of witchburning, a modern pseudoscience cloaked in the respectability of easily manipulated statistics and suspicious metaphors from public health.

-Cory Doctorow

rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority